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Fluke, or, I know why the winged whale sings 2003

By Christopher Moore

  • Fiction, Whale sounds, Humpback whale, Midlife crisis

Marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn has spent his entire career trying to decipher the songs of the humpback whales, and one day Nate and his team are shocked by a message they see on a whale's tail and wonder if they have finally unlocked the secret of the whales' language.

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